Today I thought I’d dig through the archives and find you a very tricky mystery insect.
Do you have any guesses what it might be? (I know the photograph isn’t the best.)
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In case you were wondering about the insects in last week’s post, here are their identities and links to the original posts.
This fuzzy little bee is a digger bee, probably genus Centris. It is a type of solitary bee, which means each female digs and provisions her own nest. (Spring is in the air)
This dainty butterfly is a checkered white.
On my toe is a tropical butterfly I saw during a visit to Butterfly Magic at the Tucson Botanical Garden. It is a brown clipper, Parthenos sylvia. There is also a blue form.
We were excited to see the first monarch butterfly of the fall.
I gave the tiny owlet moth with the rainbow of colors on its wings a second look.
Who can resist a photograph of a queen butterfly caterpillar?
I knew the plant was a naturalized asparagus plant when I saw the spotted asparagus beetle.
A sign of fall in the East, this is a locust borer beetle.
The tiny guy with the big eyes is a jumping spider. You can see more here at this older post.
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